Exploring the relationship of Mexico City with death; National Museum of Death

Jonathan Cardy [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

This museum, situated among the city buzz of Aguascalientes, was inaugurated in the summer of 2007. The museum as its name implies gives an eerie and a chilly feel, people are still intrigued to step their feet inside the museum to sightsee the intensity of the collection. The best thing about the museum is that its collection is permanent which it had borrowed from the Aguascalientes University. Now, the collection that the university has gifted the museum was, in reality, the relics containing the theme of death. These were massively collected during the reign of Octavio Bajonero Gil, and some of them were significantly the result of his own artistic creation.
It took around seven years for the museum after its inauguration to expand its existing collection of artifacts and refine the museum space in such a way that the entire theme of death and its gravity can be emphasized. The fact that the artifacts specifically spoke out the theme of death meant that the museum was in the quest of portraying the iconic role of death and the importance it had in the Mexican culture both in ancient and present day.
The most significant collection in the midst of such an overwhelming grave theme is that of Daniel Mercurio López Casillas that is the center of attention in the museum.
When the museum was thoroughly investigated, it was found that the museum curators expressed a long and ingrained relationship of death and Mexican society and specifically portrayed the examples of those people who were perceiving death as something trivial and matter of nonsense. Therefore through graphics and images in the form of painting, illustrations, and sculptures that stark reality of life is conveyed in a dark and grave manner.
Another way the museum explores the theme and reality of imminent death is through a chronological set of events. The museum allows the visitors to speculate the range of historical events that took place in the mad that we now call as Mexico. The main purpose is to show that with each passing time a significant event comes to an end and this leads to the beginning of a new era or events. Through life and death society progresses and this is the gist of the museum itself.

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